I Could Not Do What They Said to Do… Way back in 1989, I started my first business venture. It was a home-based business that revolved around two aspects of the work: Building a customer base and recruiting and developing a sales organization. I was as green as it...
What Keeps You from Living the Life You Truly Want? This is a serious “can of worms question.” If, in fact, you are not living the life you want or making progress towards the life you want, the first part of the answer here is simply, that you haven’t actually taken...
All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy. This saying makes me chuckle a bit. I don’t know who Jack is, or who decided to pick on him for this specific quote, but I have definitely known many “Jacks” in my time, and many years ago, I was Jack too! (I have to qualify...
The Story Goes Like This… The young man was incredibly undisciplined. As a result, his life reflected what you would expect. Money problems, health problems, no vision of any kind of future, brushes with the law, near misses with death, and a general feeling of...
Wind, Like Life, is Subject to Change Without Notice. Where I live, the Neuse River is a little over four miles wide. That is if I am standing on my beach and looking straight across. If I look to the northeast on the river, it’s closer to seven or eight miles of open...
A Successful Life Comes from Investing Your Resources Wisely. There is no way in my youth I could have possibly imagined the life I live now. It was a long and tumultuous road to get to this place, one that early on was riddled with struggles and failures, accompanied...
The Last Thing You Want to Be Doing is Trying to Convince Someone to Do Business with You Heck, when it comes to life in general, the last thing you want to be doing is trying to convince someone of anything! All you have to do is think about that for about…a second....
Castles Made of Sand Slip into the Sea Eventually***…. Recently at the YMCA gym one morning, a buddy of mine who is in his mid-60s, and as fit as anyone I personally know, shared with me that he was struggling to find his groove that morning. He just wasn’t feeling...
Confidence has a Major Impact on The Quality of our Lives… The more confidence you have the better results you will have in all areas of your life that matter. This is an absolute fact. Of course, over-confidence can be an issue as much as lack of confidence at times,...
Humility is Like Integrity; You Can’t Tell People You Have it… You have to example it. And you will want to example it…IF you get the importance of it, both from a perception standpoint and from a personal checks and balances standpoint. The immediate challenge with...
